Word: true
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...true position of the Harvard Association in this matter should be understood. It has been seriously misstated, and our students have suffered in consequence undeserved criticism...
Thirdly, a declaration made by the officers of the Princeton Football Association ("without any qualification whatever,") and certified by Professor Sloane as true "to the best of his knowlege and belief," that no member of the Eleven has been benefited in any pecuniary or business way by belonging to the team...
...gentlemen, Mr. Ames, is currently reported to have received specific sums of money for his services on base-ball teams at different times last summer in Chicago. At a meeting of the Advisory Committee held in New York, on Nov. 14, 1889, the Harvard delegate endeavored to have the true facts made known The Princeton delegate objected on a point of order, and all investigation was stopped. We have been shown a letter from a professor in Princeton College in which he says: "Although we deplore Ames' receipt of money on this occasion, this fact does not constitute professionalism, which...
...alleging that it is a kind of off side play, that it leads to personal contact of players not having the ball and hence to slugging; and that it has not been made necessary by the natural growth of the game, but is a radical departure from the true theory of the game. In the face of this it cannot be denied that the game has this year been comparatively free form slugging, and it may be doubted whether with a competent umpire this disagreeable feature would be any more characteristic of the game as played this year than...
...evidence which a reply to my letter to Mr. Ammerman alone can supply, and from his silence when asked to name his man, and from what I have been able to learn as above stated I am led to believe that what Mr. Ammerman says of himself is true that "he takes no interest in college athletics," and also that there is no importance to be attached to his statement which is not worth the discussion it has caused...